Medicine: Unhalting Nazis

The last form of criticism permitted to survive in Germany was artistic
criticism. This was officially abolished last week by a decree of
Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels
who thus firmly shackled the sublime to the ridiculous:

"To demonstrate the unhalting victory march of our cultural life, I have
by decree forbidden all criticism and replaced it with art observation
or art description."

Before being permitted to observe German art professionally and
describe it in print, former art critics must now obtain a license
from Dr. Goebbels. His decree...